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The time change begins on Sunday, March 10, at 2 a.m., when clocks are moved forward by one hour.

[b]Why 2 a.m.?[/b]

The time change is set for 2 a.m. because it was decided to be the [url="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/81-why-does-daylight-saving-time-begin-at-2-am.html"]least disruptive[/url] time of day. Moving time forward or back an hour at that time doesn

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i really thing daylight savings time is useless anymore, it was created to help when everyone was farming but that just is not the case anymore and to be honest to a farmer they dont care what time it is they just get the job done.

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I always had heard that daylight savings was for energy saving reasons. But I'm not sure if that is true. I think it is possible that in the hotter months if people get their days started earlier and business and shopping centers open earlier, they are taking advantage of the cool morning. Slightly less AC every day which probably adds up across the whole population.

Or may be completely meaningless since everyone will just run their AC more at home when they get back from work.

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With the advance of time by an hour, my inner dracula exclaims "Agh! My eyes! The light is too bright for my eyes!" every year around this time.

I always tend to get all excited when we turn the clocks back, but when they move forward, I dread it. I have limited time in my day anyway between work, running my super small business, family and school that losing an hour right now is kind of a big bummer.

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[quote name='littleneutrino' timestamp='1362668255' post='595563768']
i really thing daylight savings time is useless anymore, it was created to help when everyone was farming but that just is not the case anymore and to be honest to a farmer they dont care what time it is they just get the job done.
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Actually it's a huge pain in the ass for farmers since they have to change their milking schedule. Sucks for cows.

Daylight savings time was instituted to save energy. It has long outlived its usefulness and needs to go away.

Benjamin Franklin is sometimes credited with the invention of daylight saving time. In 1784, he made a joking reference [url="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html"]to something like daylight saving in a letter from France[/url] -- but apparently never thought anything of the sort would ever be adopted.

There's now broad agreement among historians that the true mastermind of daylight saving time was George Vernon Hudson (1867-1946), a specialist in insect biology (entomology) who left England for New Zealand in 1881. In 1895, when he first presented the idea to the Royal Society of New Zealand, he was mocked. Other members of the society deemed the proposal confusing and unnecessary. But attitudes changed, and he lived to see his brainchild adopted by many nations -- including, in 1927, his own.

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Personally I think that timezones and daylight saving should be abolished and replaced with a single universal time. It must be especially problematic in countries like the US and Russia that have multiple timezones.